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The result was keep. Nakon 03:21, 25 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Windows Insider

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This article is a poor content fork of Windows 10. While Windows 10 and Windows Phone are notable, "Windows Insider" is not. It is just website name used in conjunction with Windows 10. Codename Lisa (talk) 00:05, 18 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Computing-related deletion discussions. NORTH AMERICA1000 06:26, 18 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Software-related deletion discussions. NORTH AMERICA1000 06:26, 18 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Hi. These sources add notability to Windows 10, not the empty shell that Windows Insider is. What you are doing is analogous to reading articles about Mayonnaise, and from the recurrence of the word "Jar" in them, claim that "Mayonnaise jar" has notability beyond that of Jar itself. In addition, the fork issue remains. Best regards, Codename Lisa (talk) 03:23, 19 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment – Rather than the OS itself, I think this is a system for distributing builds of the OS, which is a topic in itself. See the above links, which are about the system -- 1 million feedback messages, etc. This system has attracted a lot of attention, and if editors want to write about it, why not? – Margin1522 (talk) 04:31, 19 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Comment - The only reason I (as NamLong before I lost my password) made this page was because the content was regarded "irrelevant" by all parties on both the Windows 10 and Mobile pages, so I made this page separate only because it didn't fit with with the other pages, on the Belgophone wikipedia (Dutch-language) this page is a part of both articles and in fact I've literally translated most of it from the Belgophone pages, anyhow I'm quite neutral on merger, deletion, and keeping, though I want this content preserved it would open up the question ¿where would users regard this relevant? the answer is nowhere, and when it was first created it was a mere makeshift placeholder article for a future Windows 10 version history until both NeoGeneric and I agreed on not creating that page, but honestly I don't see how this page has less notability than pages on applications with less users, or the countless of articles with no sources that have never been nominated for deletion, just go to the Yahoo! template and you'll find that more than half of the articles linked have 2 sentences or less, and only a handful have references, but I know that some moderators don't believe in the Other Stuff Exists argument so I won't try to convince them with it (despite the fact that the official rule is that if you can use it in your argument that it's a relevant argument to make), anyhow I won't argue against the fact that this page indeed has potential, but if there were to be a Windows 10 development history page or a Windows 10 version history or something this page should be insta-merged into it.
Sincerely, --86.81.201.94 (talk) 08:54, 19 March 2015 (UTC) (Alternatively NamLong618)[reply]
  1. Windows Insider is a notable part of the Windows experience in general, and is a specific, prominent example of the software release life cycle. This is similar to why articles about specific mobile phones exist, e.g. Lumia 640. (Ironically right before listing this article at wp:RFD the nominator reverted an edit that claimed to advertise this very topic, which might have led to reconsideration the article as a content fork.)
  2. Also, regarding ConCompS's proposal to merge the page with Windows 10, it would only make the article more complicated and eventually it could get too long - that was why notable topics are given their own articles, and hence a dedicated Windows 10 (mobile) article was created for this purpose. They all appear under the Category:Windows 10 and Category:Microsoft Windows and this is certainly no exception.
  3. Finally, I thank Margin1522 for the sources he or she provided and the editors involved in this article will incorporate them at our own behest. <<< SOME GADGET GEEK >>> (talk) 03:56, 19 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Looks fine on my Chrome (Version 41.0.2272.89 m) and Firefox (36.0.1). Can you be more specific as to what you're seeing? Leave me a message on my talk page, let's not clutter this up too much. ― Padenton |☎  06:18, 19 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
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